Bauhaus

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a <strong>pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology</strong> to be applied across painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and installation.

As much an intense personal community as a publicly minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by <strong>Walter Gropius (1883-1969)</strong>, and counted <strong>Josef and Anni Albers</strong>, <strong>Wassily Kandinsky</strong>, <strong>Paul Klee</strong>, <strong>Oskar Schlemmer</strong>, <strong>Gunta Stoelzl</strong>,<strong> Marianne Brandt</strong> and<strong> Ludwig Mies van der Rohe</strong> among its members. Between its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered <strong>charismatic and creative exchange</strong> between teachers and students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and their interest in a "total" work of art across different practices and media.

This book celebrates the adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a <strong>trailblazer in the development of modernism</strong>, and as a <strong>paradigm of art education</strong>, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful creations.